The Council on Strategic Risks
John Conger is a seasoned expert in defense budgeting, environmental policy, and strategic counsel, currently serving as Senior Advisor to the Council on Strategic Risks and Director Emeritus of the Center for Climate and Security. As President of Conger Strategies & Solutions, LLC since February 2017, Conger offers strategic analysis on federal processes, focusing on areas such as defense programming, energy efficiency, climate change adaptation, and military asset management. Prior experience includes leadership roles at the Department of Defense, where Conger oversaw significant budgets and programs, as well as legislative work with various congressional offices. Conger holds a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master's in Science, Technology & Public Policy from The George Washington University.
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The Council on Strategic Risks
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is a nonprofit, non-partisan security policy institute devoted to anticipating, analyzing and addressing core systemic risks to security in the 21st century, with special examination of the ways in which these risks intersect and exacerbate one another. To further this goal, CSR currently hosts non-partisan institutes on climate and security (The Center for Climate and Security), strategic weapons risks (The Center on Strategic Weapons), and a program that connects the two (The Bridge Project), which includes the Climate-Nuclear-Security Program. The CSR also hosts Council Members – practitioners and scholars pursuing individual research and policy programs that explore systemic risks to security, and the intersections between them. The CSR contends that though societies are facing unprecedented risks, they also possess unprecedented foresight, and this dynamic creates a “Responsibility to Prepare.”